SLAVE RAIDS EXTEND TO POLAND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 883, 8 December 1916, Page 7

SLAVE RAIDS EXTEND TO POLAND.

THOUSANDS FORCED TO WORK IN GERMANY DEPUTY'S STRAIGHT TALK IN REICHSTAG. ' \ Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 7, 1 1 .50 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 6. The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" has obtained a copy of the speech of a Polish Deputy at the secret session of the Reichstag, as published in a Polish newspaper. The Deputy, M. Troupc/.ynski, assorted that Poles -were being deported like tlie Belgians. On August 1. 25,000 Poles were working in Germany. They had been enticed there by contracts, and they not allowed to return. Many had been forcibly transported to Germany, and their employers were paying them what they pleased. Many Poles had been whipped until they signed renewals of their contracts, and frontier sentries had shot several who were attempting to escape.